This is a book of contrasts, the disparity of which made me very unsettled as I read. I found it at once disturbing, thrilling, philosophic and tender. The story – a young man on a remote Antarctic island faces relentless nocturnal attacks by countless amphibious, reptilian monsters – is straight from a 1950s B-movie, but the literal monsters aren’t the only ones he is battling and therein lies a much deeper, thoughtful, literary read.
